Heart Reflection
Answer the following questions. Write or draw your responses and keep them for reflection.
- Where do I have the sense that my thoughts are coming from right now?
- Where do I have the sense that my feelings are coming from right now?
- Do I believe that I am loved?
- If I am loved, how do I know that? How and where do I feel that in my body?
- If I do not feel love or loved, how do I know that? How and where do I feel that in my body/
- Do I believe that I can feel forgiveness?
- Does forgiveness feel different than love? How and where do I know that in my body?
- Can I feel the pulse of my heart beat? How fast is it? How slow?
- When was the first time that I became aware of my heart beat? How old was I? Where did I believe that my heart beat came from?
- When was the first time that I knew that love exists?
- If I place my hand over my heart and breathe through my belly, what happens? Where does my thinking seem to come from?
Now, take a moment to reflect on your thoughts.
We record our life experiences and the interpreted meanings in our body in ways that reach back to before we could even speak, really before we even came out of the womb. If we did not have the benefit of being securely attached in our relationships with caregivers in early infancy, then life itself may have often felt unfair and overwhelming. We have adjusted in ways that have huge implications for how we hold ourselves as bodily vessels in our everyday lives.
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